Kohl’s Announces Mass Closings. Is Amarillo On The Chopping Block?

2024 was one of the worst years on record for businesses closing here in Amarillo, and 2025 hasn't exactly gotten off to the best start in the Texas Panhandle.

We hear all the news of these different chain restaurants and department stores getting ready to shudder a ton of locations in 2025, while some have already announced how many stores they're planning on closing down.

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For example, JCPenney announced they were getting set to close eight locations by mid-2025, Joann Fabric & Crafts mentioned they were knocking out hundreds of locations after filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Kohl's also mentioned they'd be shutting down locations.

Any time we hear of places closing, we immediately wonder if that means our locations in Amarillo will be closed down. We're a relatively small city by comparison, and a lot of the time that's what we see get closed.

In the case of JCPenney here, you look at the mall and how the traffic isn't what it once was. You wonder to yourself how these department stores are surviving there. However, Amarillo was not on the list of closures for JCP.

Moving on to Joann. We have a location on Soncy, and with them mentioning hundreds of locations would end up closing their doors, it was almost assumed Amarillo would be one of those. Well, they aren't, so we'll keep that one around as well.

Well what about Kohl's? They've announced they're going to be closing quite a few stores in 2025, and once again, we start to wonder if the Amarillo location is about to get the axe.

They did just remodel that store not long ago thanks to the flooding that occurred a couple years back, and it appears that won't go to waste as Amarillo has once again survived the cut list.

Experts are saying 2025 could be the worst year on record when it comes to retail establishments closing, so it doesn't mean we're out of the woods just yet when it comes to closures. However for now, it appears we're safe with some of the big ones.